I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThings have a life of their own, the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. “It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.”
More Gabriel García Márquez Quotes
-
-
If men gave birth, they’d be less inconsiderate.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ -
The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ -
She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she’ll be sorry if she isn’t guided by her heart.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ -
Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ -
If you love something – let go. If it is yours – it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I’m with you.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ -
For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ -
When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ -
Inspiration gives no warnings.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ -
He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ -
The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ -
One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ -
My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ -
Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn’t how old you are but how old you feel.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ -
Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ -
I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ